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Balrog (Street Fighter)
Balrog (Mike Bison, マイク・バイソン) is Capcom's Street Fighter boxer, a Shadaloo Four Kings boss from Street Fighter II (1991), renamed in the West to avoid Mike Tyson lawsuits.
Balša Popović
Balša Popović (born 2000) is a Montenegrin goalkeeper at Olympiacos and the Montenegro national team; formerly OFK Beograd, named Serbian Superliga's best goalkeeper 2025/26. Not the Red Star youth right back Balša Papović.
Baltimore Orioles
Baltimore Orioles, American League East MLB team at Oriole Park at Camden Yards since 1992; moved from St. Louis as the Browns in 1954; three World Series titles (1966, 1970, 1983), Earl Weaver era, Ripken's streak, Rubenstein ownership.
Baltimore Orioles (1882–1899)
Baltimore Orioles (1882–1899), original NL/AA franchise, won three straight NL pennants 1894–1896 under Ned Hanlon with inside baseball; stars sold to Brooklyn, folded 1899; 1901 AL successor became the Yankees.
Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore Ravens, NFL AFC North team founded 1996 after Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore; named via Baltimore Sun fan poll after Edgar Allan Poe's poem; two-time Super Bowl champions (XXXV, XLVII), play at M&T Bank Stadium.
Balwinder Sandhu (ਬਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ)
Balwinder Singh Sandhu (ਬਲਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ), born 1956, Indian right-arm fast-medium swing bowler; 8 Tests, 22 ODIs; famous for bowling Gordon Greenidge in the 1983 World Cup final; later a coach.
Balzan
Balzan FC, formerly Balzan Youths FC (founded 1937, Ħal Balzan, Malta), is a Maltese football club; FA Trophy winners 2018-19, Premier League runners-up 2016-17 and 2017-18, home ground Centenary Stadium, Ta' Qali.
Bam Adebayo
Bam Adebayo (Edrice Femi Adebayo), Miami Heat center-forward drafted 14th in 2017 out of Kentucky; three-time All-Star, five-time All-Defensive pick, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and scorer of the NBA's second-highest single-game total, 83 points in 2026.
Bam Adebayo's 83-point game
Bam Adebayo's 83-point game: verified NBA performance, March 10, 2026, Heat 150-129 Wizards; second-highest single-game total ever behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100, with NBA-record 36 free throws made on 43 attempts.
Bam Bam Bigelow
Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Charles Bigelow, 1961-2007), American pro wrestler of WWE, ECW, and WCW; flame-tattooed 390-lb big man who main-evented WrestleMania XI against Lawrence Taylor and won ECW, WCW, and IWGP titles.
Bam Margera
Bam Margera, born Brandon Margera, is an American former professional skateboarder and television personality from West Chester, Pennsylvania, best known for MTV's Jackass and his show Viva La Bam.
Ban Hyo Jin
Ban Hyo Jin (반효진), South Korean 10m air rifle shooter born 2007 in Daegu; youngest female Olympic shooting champion, winning Paris 2024 gold in a shoot-off against Huang Yuting, plus 2025 world title.
Banaat FC
Banaat FC (بنات إف سي), a Dubai women's football club founded by Budreya Faisal in 2023, won the 2025/26 UAE Women's League and Super Cup and debuted internationally in the WAFF and AFC Women's Champions League.
Banana Ball
Banana Ball, also called Banana Ball rules of the Savannah Bananas, is an 11-rule fast baseball variant with inning points, a two-hour limit, fan foul-ball outs, and a six-team BBCL touring league.
Banana Beach Surf Shop
Banana Beach Surf Shop: a surf shop in Aourir, Morocco (Agadir region, near Banana Beach and Tamraght), also a surf school name in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, and a Brazilian trademark (INPI no. 818523298).
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (バンダイナムコエンターテインメント), the Digital Unit company of Bandai Namco Holdings; founded 1955 as Namco, renamed 2015; publishes PAC-MAN, TEKKEN, ELDEN RING outside Japan; HQ Tokyo, CEO Nao Udagawa.
Bando
Bando is a traditional Welsh stick-and-ball team sport, related to hurling and shinty, popular in Glamorgan until the late nineteenth century and revived from 2025 by Campau Celtaidd Cymru.
Bandu Patil
Bandu Patil (1936–1988) was an Indian field hockey player who won Olympic gold at the 1964 Tokyo Games and Asian Games silver in 1962.
Bandy
Bandy: eleven-a-side ice team sport with a ball and curved sticks on a football-pitch-sized rink, governed by the FIB (founded 1955, Stockholm); strongest in Russia and the Nordics, IOC-recognized.
Bang Bang Gang
Bang Bang Gang (formerly Bullet Club Gold), AEW/ROH heel stable led by Jay White with Juice Robinson, The Gunns, and Ace Austin; formed April 2023, held unified AEW World Trios and ROH Six-Man titles in 2024.
Bang Su Hyeon
Bang Su Hyeon (방수현, Bang Soo-hyun), born 1972, is a South Korean badminton player, 1996 Atlanta Olympic women's singles gold medalist and 1992 Barcelona silver medalist, the first Korean Olympic champion in badminton singles.
Bangkok United F.C.
True Bangkok United FC (แข้งเทพ, Bangkok Angels), Thai League 1 club formed as Bangkok University FC, renamed Bangkok United in 2009, True Corporation-owned since 2010; 2006 league champions, repeated runners-up, 2023-24 Thai FA Cup winners.
Bangladesh national cricket team
Bangladesh men's national cricket team, run by the Bangladesh Cricket Board; ICC Associate 1977, full/Test member 2000, 1999 World Cup debut, best finish 2015 quarter-final, replaced by Scotland at T20 World Cup 2026.
Bangladesh national football team (বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ফুটবল দল)
The Bangladesh national football team, also known as the Bangladesh national soccer team, represents Bangladesh in men's international football and has never qualified for a FIFA World Cup.
Bangladesh Premier League
The Bangladesh Premier League, or BPL, is Bangladesh's franchise Twenty20 cricket tournament, launched by the Bangladesh Cricket Board in 2012 and suspended in 2026 after financial losses.
Bangladesh–India cricket rivalry
The Bangladesh–India cricket rivalry is a sporting contest between the two national teams, beginning in 1988, with India leading the 75 recorded matches with 63 wins.
Bangladeshi cricket team in Australia in 2026
The Bangladeshi cricket team toured Australia in August 2026 for a two-Test series, its first there since 2003, drawn 1-1 after Bangladesh's historic Darwin win.
Bangladeshi cricket team in New Zealand in 2018–19
Bangladesh cricket team in New Zealand 2018-19: tour of three ODIs and three Tests, Feb-Mar 2019. New Zealand swept the ODIs 3-0 and won the Test series 2-0; the third Test was cancelled after the Christchurch mosque shooting.
Bangladeshi cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22
Bangladesh cricket team in New Zealand 2021-22: two-Test World Test Championship tour, drawn 1-1. Bangladesh's maiden Test win over New Zealand at Mount Maunganui ended the hosts' eight-series home streak; New Zealand levelled at Christchurch.
Bango
Bango names several games: the shout in Card Bingo (also Hoy!), Schaper's 1963 dexterity game Bango! Bango!, a 1979 ten-player bingo-like card game, Gigamic's family card game, a golf point, and a 2026 Steam roguelike.